TRANSAMINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transamination mean? 

• TRANSAMINATION (noun)
  The noun TRANSAMINATION has 2 senses:

1. the process of transposing an amino group within a chemical compound

2. the process of transfering an amino group from one compound to another

  Familiarity information: TRANSAMINATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSAMINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of transposing an amino group within a chemical compound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("transamination" is a kind of...):

chemical action; chemical change; chemical process ((chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The process of transfering an amino group from one compound to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("transamination" is a kind of...):

chemical action; chemical change; chemical process ((chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved)

Derivation:

transaminate (undergo transfer from one compound to another)

 Context examples 

The removal of amino nitrogens commonly occurs through transamination, transferring the nitrogen to alpha-ketobutyrate to create glutamate.

(Catabolic Pathways for Alanine, Glycine, Serine, Cysteine, Tryptophan, and Threonine, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes alanine aminotransferase 2 protein, is involved in the reversible transamination between alanine and 2-oxoglutarate to generate pyruvate and glutamate.

(GPT2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes alanine aminotransferase protein, plays a role in the reversible transamination between alanine and 2-oxoglutarate to generate pyruvate and glutamate.

(GPT wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Alanine goes through transamination to release pyruvate, which can be used as fuel.

(Feeding Amino Groups into the Urea Cycle, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes aspartate aminotransferase, mitochondrial protein, plays a role in the transamination between L-aspartate and 2-oxoglutarate to form oxaloacetate and L-glutamate.

(GOT2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes aspartate aminotransferase, cytoplasmic protein, is involved in the reversible transamination between L-aspartate and 2-oxoglutarate to form oxaloacetate and L-glutamate.

(GOT1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Transamination or deamination of glutamate produces a-ketoglutarate which feeds into the citric acid cycle.

(Arginine, Histidine, Glutamate, Glutamine, and Proline Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Part of tryptophan is found in alanine, which is converted directly to pyruvate through transamination.

(Catabolic Pathways for Alanine, Glycine, Serine, Cysteine, Tryptophan, and Threonine, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The general route of entry for amino acids into the urea cycle is through transamination, the transfer of their amino group to alpha-ketoglutarate to form glutamate.

(Feeding Amino Groups into the Urea Cycle, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)